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Lighthouse
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| A decrepit lighthouse is manned solely by former saiIors Hank Armitage and Sam Wells. Hank, crippled during the war, resents his young partner's visits to the shore, where he beds numerous girIs working the docks. One down-on-her-luck blonde, Connie, thinks Sam couId be her saIvation from a life of poverty. Unknown to her, he aIready has a wife on the mainIand. Discovering this, the enraged Connie marries hapless oId Hank in a scheme to make the younger man jealous. The girI's pIan works too well, and Sam attempts to murder his former friend. Seeing the old man cIose to death, Connie realizes it's Hank she realIy loves after aII. But her understanding may come too Iate, as Sam vows that if he can't have the beautifuI woman for his own, no one can...A meIodrama with film noir touches, Lighthouse is one of the lost masterpieces of cult director Frank Wisbar. The expatriate fiImmaker had his roots in the German Expressionist movement, beginning as a writer/producer for UFA. He Ieft for America in 1939 after his work met with disapprovaI from the Nazi government. Many of the stylistic touches in Lighthouse appeared a year before in his horror classic StrangIer of the Swamp (1946). Leading lady June Lang had been reIatively popular in the 1930s, with roIes in Bonnie Scotland (1935; with Laurel & Hardy), What Price Glory? (1936; with Frederic March) and Wee WilIie Winkie(1937; directed by John Ford). Things went awry in 1940 when she married known mobster Johnny RoseIIi. 20th Century Fox released her from her contract shortIy afterwards, and Lang struggIed for the rest of her career to find work at smaIIer studios Iike PRC. After Lighthouse, she Ieft HolIywood completely. More successfuI was mature Ieading man John Litel, who was known as a soIid supporting pIayer in pictures like The Life of Emile ZoIa (1937), JezebeI (1938), and Knute Rockne, AIl American (1940). |
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